And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, so that ye might have a second benefit,

and to pass through you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be helped on the way toward Judea.

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that I did not yet come to Corinth, sparing you.

But I determined this in myself, not to come again to you in sadness.

Now having come to Troas for the good-news of the Christ, and a door having been opened to me in Lord,

Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

if somehow Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we (that we might not say, ye) would be embarrassed in this confidence of boast.

For indeed if a man who comes, preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or ye receive another spirit that ye did not receive, or another good-news that ye did not accept, ye well tolerated it.

For I reckon to come short in nothing of those, superlative apostles.

(Really, to me boasting is not helpful.) For I will come to visions and revelations of Lord.

Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t

lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.

I have told you before, and I say in advance, as present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have previously sinned, and to all the others, that if I come to it again, I will not spare,